Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment deliver problems

[Mike Kercher]

Do you have any whitelisting rulesets that might be offsetting your spam
scoring or other rulesets?

Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of brichter
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 6:34 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Mailscanner-4.28.6-1 and SPAM Actions= attachment
> deliver problems
>
> I was wondering if someone could please help me confirm this
> should work.
>
> I am on a last ditch effort to find a solution to my problem
> without abandoning Mail Scanner.
>
> I have to be able to have end users forward a message to our
> help desk when something fails the Spam Check to determine if
> it's a false positive or not.  Since there is no way to pass
> the REPORT information from Spam Assassin to Mail Scanner
> (Outlook does NOT forward headers, and my Boss has told me to
> find another solution if we cannot work around this) I have
> found this might be a possible solution for my situation, I
> just can't get it to work in Mail Scanner.  I have tried
> everything I can think of.
>
> When I specify in my Mail Scanner config:
>
> Spam Actions = attachment deliver
>
> When a message is tagged as Spam I get this in the log:
>
> Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam Checks: Found 1
> spam messages Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Spam
> Actions: message i2T047Z01515 actions are attachment,deliver
> Mar 28 18:04:08 mars MailScanner[1510]: Unscanned: Delivered
> 1 messages
>
> But when I go to open that message, it has NOT been converted
> into an attachment and appended onto the report file
> designated in the Mailscanner.conf file.  I have tried
> reversing the attachment deliver options, I have tried it on
> High SCoring SPAM, normal Spam.  It NEVER gets converted into
> an attachment.
>
> I am using Mailscanner-4.28.6-1
>
> I have searched the forums with no luck.  I just see
> references to needing both attachment and deliver to get it
> to work. (And I have that set)
>
> Thanks much
>